noun 1. Slang. the act or practice of following someone persistently or stealthily, especially online: Twitter and LinkedIn creeping is a normal part of my day.adjective 2. advancing or developing gradually so as to infringe on or supplant something else: creeping inflation; creeping socialism. [kreep] /krip/verb (used without object), crept, creeping. 1. to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees. 2. to approach slowly, imperceptibly, or stealthily (often followed by up): We crept up and peeked over the wall. 3. to move or advance slowly or gradually: The automobile crept up the hill. Time just seems to creep along on these hot summer days. 4. to sneak up behind someone or without someone’s knowledge (usually followed by up on): The prisoners crept up on the guard and knocked him out. 5. to enter or become evident inconspicuously, gradually, or insidiously (often followed by in or into:) The writer’s personal bias occasionally creeps into the account. 6. to move or behave timidly or servilely. 7. to grow along the ground, a wall, etc., as a plant. 8. to advance or develop gradually so as to infringe on or supplant something else. 9. Slang.

10. Slang. to follow someone persistently or stealthily, as on a social-media website (often followed by on): He spends a lot of time creeping on her Facebook profile. 11. Slang. to suddenly intrude into someone’s photograph as it is being taken: Who’s that creeping in the background of the picture? 12. to slip, slide, or shift gradually; become displaced. 13. (of a metal object) to become deformed, as under continuous loads or at high temperatures. 14. Nautical. to grapple (usually followed by for): The ships crept for their anchor chains.verb (used with object), crept, creeping. 15. Slang. to follow persistently or stealthily, especially online: I’ve been creeping her blog and found some great recipes. 16. Archaic. to creep along or over.noun 17. an act or instance of creeping: It seems as if time has slowed to a creep. 18. Slang. an obnoxious, disturbingly eccentric, deviant, or painfully introverted person. 19. Slang. an intelligence or counterintelligence agent; spy. 20. Slang. (def 9). 21. a gradual or inconspicuous increase, advance, change, or development: Avoid jargon creep in your writing. We are seeing the steady creep of consumerism. 22. Geology.

23. Mechanics. the gradual, permanent deformation of a body produced by a continued application of heat or stress. 24. a grappling iron; grapnel. 25. Firearms. the slack in a trigger mechanism before it releases the firing pin. 26. . 27. the creeps, Informal. a sensation of horror, fear, disgust, etc., suggestive of the feeling induced by something crawling over the skin: That horror movie gave me the creeps. Idioms 28. make one’s flesh creep, to be frightening or repellent; cause one to experience uneasiness: The eerie stories made our flesh creep. /kriːp/verb (intransitive) creeps, creeping, crept 1. to crawl with the body near to or touching the ground 2. to move slowly, quietly, or cautiously 3. to act in a servile way; fawn; cringe 4. to move or slip out of place, as from pressure or wear 5. (of plants) to grow along the ground or over rocks, producing roots, suckers, or tendrils at intervals 6. (of a body or substance) to become permanently deformed as a result of an applied stress, often when combined with heating 7. to develop gradually: creeping unrest 8. to have the sensation of something crawling over the skin 9. (of metals) to undergo slow plastic deformationnoun 10. the act of creeping or a creeping movement 11. (slang) a person considered to be obnoxious or servile 12. the continuous permanent deformation of a body or substance as a result of stress or heat 13. (geology) the gradual downwards movement of loose rock material, soil, etc, on a slope 14. a slow relative movement of two adjacent parts, structural components, etc 15. slow plastic deformation of metals v.

“a creeping motion,” 1818, from creep (v.). Meaning “despicable person” is 1935, American English slang, perhaps from earlier sense of “sneak thief” (1914). Creeper “a gilded rascal” is recorded from c.1600, and the word also was used of certain classes of thieves, especially those who robbed customers in brothels. The creeps “a feeling of dread or revulsion” first attested 1849, in Dickens.

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A disgusting and obnoxious person; crud, jerk, nerd •An isolated 1886 use seems to refer specifically to a cringing sycophant rather than a generally repulsive person: The man is nothing but a creep/ poets loyal to Blake and Whitman, the ”holy creeps”/ How to spend our money on making some creepo more creative in the growing world of weirdness

[first form 1930s+ students, second 1950s+; origin uncertain; perhaps fr one who makes one’s flesh creep;perhaps generalized fr one who cringes and curries favor] Committee to Reelect the President In addition to the idiom beginning with creep

noun 1. See under (def 1). [singk-foil] /ˈsɪŋkˌfɔɪl/ noun 1. any of several plants belonging to the genus Potentilla, of the rose family, having yellow, red, or white five-petaled flowers, as P. reptans (creeping cinquefoil) of the Old World, or P. argentea (silvery cinquefoil) of North America. 2. Also called quinquefoil, quintefoil. Architecture. a panellike […]

noun phrase Any disease, esp an unnamed and prevalent flulike disorder or an unexplained and nasty rash [WWII armed forces; a reduplicating expansion of crud]

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